snowychap Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 Just now, mwj said: It was more the fact that a thread about a football club takeover ends up about slavery via Qatar and China, but sure... what about the other two I mentioned or are you happy only picking what's convenient? Other than your post today (and now mine, I guess): A search for the word 'laundering' in this thread returns results from May 21st and before. A search for the word 'dictatorship' in this thread returns two results in the past couple of pages - Limpid's post and your one disagreeing with him (the criticism of ' a bit much and not factually accurate' suggests something other than 'ridiculously hyperbolic'). The older posts are part of exchanges from May 20th and one post from earlier. On the back of that, I'm not really conveninced about the strength of your accusation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlwaysAVFC Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 1 hour ago, alreadyexists said: That's very odd... Not really, some outlets will only go by the official word. Villa haven't announced it yet, so they aren't going to say it's confirmed before they announce it or at least a general press release. Pat Murphy seems to be getting the scoop first and the other reports yesterday were just going from Xia's weibo post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 O/S will only announce things when they're 100% done. BBC and Papers happy to put these stories when they're 99.9% done. Bit like how the Garde and RDM stories broke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Messy Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 2 hours ago, villan-scott said: Now let's get down to the real business of sorting out the issues on the field. Am I the only one that thinks it strange that the BBC keep breaking news for us and not the OS? Not when the OS is still under the control of Learner's regime. Makes sense that DrX would want to build a good relationship with the BBC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deisler123 Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 (edited) http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/aston-villas-chinese-takeover--11469475 Aston Villa fans have today been greeted with the news that Tony Xia's deal for ownership of the club has all but been confirmed. Having passed the Football League's fit and proper test, all that now remains is for the club to confirm the deal. Hopefully the new owner will spend more time at the club watching games than Randy Lerner did. To help him out we have translated a few examples of the local lingo to help him out. Paul McGrath my lord - 保罗·麦格拉斯我的上帝，保罗·麦格拉斯，主啊，保罗·麦格拉斯 Holte Enders in the sky - 霍尔特·恩德斯在天空 My old man said be a city fan - 我老汉说是一个城市的风扇.... Have you won the European Cup? - 你赢得了欧洲冠军杯？ Where do we keep the chocolate biscuits? - 我们在哪里保持巧克力饼干 I'm confiscating Paddy Riley's Xbox - 我没收帕迪·莱利的Xbox Stanley Victor, move away from Twitter - 斯坦利维克多，从Twitter搬走 Joleon did what with his back pocket? - 埃弗顿做了什么，他后面的口袋？ I'm looking forward to meeting our two best players - Hercules and Bella - 我期待着见到我们两个最好的球员 - 大力神和贝拉 Can we not knock it? - 能不敲它？ Very interesting one, but I must say I understand none of them. Can someone help me understand those ' local lingo ' please? Edited June 14, 2016 by Deisler123 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don_Simon Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 8 minutes ago, VillaChris said: O/S will only announce things when they're 100% done. BBC and Papers happy to put these stories when they're 99.9% done. Bit like how the Garde and RDM stories broke. Whereas Sky Sources will announce things when they find a message in a Chinese cookie. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 Glad its finally done because you never know with these things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 matt maher @mjmarr_star 27m On #avfc takeover, understand a few "very minor" details still being ironed out. No official confirmation until then, though it is close. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponky Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 Like who the hell is Vera. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted June 14, 2016 Administrator Share Posted June 14, 2016 I hope it's not an Unsworth situation, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeilS Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 (edited) 1 hour ago, Deisler123 said: http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/aston-villas-chinese-takeover--11469475 Aston Villa fans have today been greeted with the news that Tony Xia's deal for ownership of the club has all but been confirmed. Having passed the Football League's fit and proper test, all that now remains is for the club to confirm the deal. Hopefully the new owner will spend more time at the club watching games than Randy Lerner did. To help him out we have translated a few examples of the local lingo to help him out. Paul McGrath my lord - 保罗·麦格拉斯我的上帝，保罗·麦格拉斯，主啊，保罗·麦格拉斯 Holte Enders in the sky - 霍尔特·恩德斯在天空 My old man said be a city fan - 我老汉说是一个城市的风扇.... Have you won the European Cup? - 你赢得了欧洲冠军杯？ Where do we keep the chocolate biscuits? - 我们在哪里保持巧克力饼干 I'm confiscating Paddy Riley's Xbox - 我没收帕迪·莱利的Xbox Stanley Victor, move away from Twitter - 斯坦利维克多，从Twitter搬走 Joleon did what with his back pocket? - 埃弗顿做了什么，他后面的口袋？ I'm looking forward to meeting our two best players - Hercules and Bella - 我期待着见到我们两个最好的球员 - 大力神和贝拉 Can we not knock it? - 能不敲它？ Very interesting one, but I must say I understand none of them. Can someone help me understand those ' local lingo ' please? You are not missing out on a lot by not understanding. The top few on the list are songs/chants that the crowd will sing at a game, and the lower half of the list are basically the local news outlet making jokes at our disasterous last few seasons. I must admit, that i have no idea what the chocolate biscuits thing is about? That has gone over my head, I must have missed that one. Anyone else know? Edited June 14, 2016 by NeilS 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRO Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 (edited) 2 hours ago, Daweii said: I am sure one of them is mine.. I'm always chatting all sorts of shit. keep away from self harming.....I know we have had a bad season......but don't resort to that your comments are "A" ok. Edited June 14, 2016 by TRO 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRO Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 16 minutes ago, PaulC said: Glad its finally done because you never know with these things. Now the real hard work starts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRO Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 (edited) 30 minutes ago, Ponky said: Like who the hell is Vera. I think its a health product they use( full name)....."Hello Vera" Edited June 14, 2016 by TRO 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dont_do_it_doug. Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 19 minutes ago, limpid said: I hope it's not an Unsworth situation, Dr T's wife would rather live in Scotland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted June 14, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted June 14, 2016 13 minutes ago, NeilS said: I must admit, that i have no idea what the chocolate biscuits thing is about? That has gone over my head, I must have missed that one. Anyone else know? There was a report in the press about cost cutting measures that had been employed at the club, reduction in stewards, staff made up of kids, etc. One of the measures supposedly taken was that the corporate allocation no longer received their half time chocolate digestives. Cue a lot of "this takes the biscuit" style remarks.... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRO Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 (edited) 5 hours ago, meme said: Very interesting bit. Whom we thought was the villain, the dark man, turned out to be the man behind the takeover after all. We can only judge him on what he does for us....He has presumably passed the required tests. We have all got excited about certain folk who have come to our club and been let down badly......Chris Samuelson might be a positive twist of fate ( that we have all been waiting for)and turn out to be the opposite of what many have said .....we can only wait and see. I don't see Tony X building the empire he has on ill judgment, quite the contrary (so if he's comfortable with Samuelson so should we be)....Its this aspect of the takeover I am more upbeat about, however the money does come in handy and gives us the fluidity to trade and possibly buy the bits for the jigshaw that RDM wants....as opposed to buying individuals because they are available and to to make money on with little/secondary consideration for where they fit in to a team pattern. Edited June 14, 2016 by TRO 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hippo Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 VT 's record on directors isn't great Fox was hailed as one hell of coup - and just sat on his backside and pocketed a huge salary. Hollis - was derided on here - yet he seems to have got the sale done. Samuelson - looks like he found us Dr Xia I can almost hear "This is a steal at £75m" - which with a bit of TLC it is ...... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted June 14, 2016 Moderator Share Posted June 14, 2016 6 minutes ago, TRO said: I don't see Tony X building the empire he has on ill judgement, quite the contrary....Its this aspect of the takeover I am more upbeat about Yep that's a key difference between Randy and Tony. One is self-made and therefore capable. The other, because he inherited, will always have question marks over his abilities if not his character. On the basis that Dr. X has seemingly passed the F&P test we can now rest a little more easily that he is what he says, in which case he's one significant step closer to being that capable owner that we need. And by capable I also mean the ability to acknowledge one's own shortcomings and hire the right help. From what we've seen, he tends to succeed in what he does, so he must go about things in the right way. Hopefully we're the next successful project 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hippo Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 5 minutes ago, BOF said: Yep that's a key difference between Randy and Tony. One is self-made and therefore capable. The other, because he inherited, will always have question marks over his abilities if not his character. On the basis that Dr. X has seemingly passed the F&P test we can now rest a little more easily that he is what he says, in which case he's one significant step closer to being that capable owner that we need. And by capable I also mean the ability to acknowledge one's own shortcomings and hire the right help. From what we've seen, he tends to succeed in what he does, so he must go about things in the right way. Hopefully we're the next successful project The appointment of Wyness gives me hope. What Tony doesn't know - he has recruited to plug that gap. Something Randy never did. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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